just moments ago president biden spoke about the omicron variant crisis. and his new push to send 500 million rapid test kits to americans across the country. listen to his remarks in an abc news interview with david muir just a little while ago. go to the pharmacy, we hear this over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure. i don t think it is a nature. i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, i ve ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but the answer is yeah, i wish hi thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago before covid hit here.
authority to do and i think the courts are going to uphold that as we ve seen the biden vaccine mandates for the private sector be continually struck down in federal court carr we re going carley: we re going to have to wait to see about that. kathy hochul announced an indoor mask mandate which starts today. some republican county executives say they won t enforce it. what do you make of her mask mandate and the pushback against it? the kaye. the crazy part iswe ll see tw york city where there is no omicron variant crisis going on whatsoever. the majority of the state is governed by republicans, conservative upstate new york, bruce blakeman said we re not going to enforce it. the governor has no ability to enforce and institute fines against people so county executives are making the decision and realizing that their hospitals are not overloaded, that omicron is not causing a run on